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Ryan Day is eight days away from unveiling the first Ohio State team under his helm as head coach at the Spring Game. Day is not the only thing new about this Buckeyes team, as the two quarterbacks competing for the starting job, sophomore Justin ...

Nine practices into his first spring, Ohio State head coach Ryan Day seems to be getting closer to naming his starting quarterback for the fall. He said Monday that, based on the amount of playing time he has seen from redshirt freshman Matthew Baldwin and ...

Ryan Day is still pleased with the energy of Ohio State through the first five practices of the spring. The head coach said he challenged the team during Thursday’s practice to be tough, leading to what he described as one of the best inside drills ...

On Wednesday, Ohio State head coach Ryan Day called the race for the starting quarterback position a “battle.” The battle continued in practice Friday, with sophomore Justin Fields and redshirt freshman Matthew Baldwin headlining the competition. Fields, a transfer quarterback from Georgia who was granted ...

Last season, redshirt sophomore Dwayne Haskins secured the backup quarterback position when redshirt junior quarterback Joe Burrow was temporarily sidelined with a hand injury. In that backup role, Haskins threw for 565 yards, four touchdowns and one interception, completing 70.2 percent of his passes across ...

Rarely in the recent history of Ohio State has the team not started a mobile quarterback under center. A program that takes Woody Hayes’ iconic quote, “Three yards and a cloud of dust” to heart, Ohio State historically won national titles on the shoulders of ...

Dwayne Haskins and Joe Burrow have been through this before — just last year, in fact. Last March, the quarterbacks went back and forth, battling each practice to become J.T. Barrett’s backup. Neither won. They both played well in the Spring Game and entered the ...